Bayless High School - Oracle Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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+ ++ Qoireiuuord June, 1944-and for some of us there draws to a close another phase in our young lives. Life at Bayless-endless classrooms and unending classes, stunt nights, athletic events, club activities, study halls, social and recreational pur- suits, all become crystallized in memory. To Catch our life as it Was, the Oracle again comes forward to serve as a con- stant reminder of the knowledge, the character, the fun, the work which we have done as students at Bayless. Yeats hence, may this annual serve to recapture for us the youthful ideal- ism, the youthful ambitions, the youth- ful obligations we now have so that our America and the whole world will be- come a better place for our having lived in it. A Scene From Our America + 'Q

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4 B in c to 4 e to or c H ClDedlication The ORACLE of 1944 is dedicated to a vision, a dream, a hope, and an in- spiration. This vision was sown by a man who commanded three tiny ships to set foot on virgin soil, nurtured by the hardy band of Pilgrims, tested by pioneers crossing the Alleghanies, tempered at Valley Forge and Gettysburg, renewed by hardy frontiersmen envisioning a united continent stretching from the Palisades of the Hudson to the rolling, fertile plains of California, extending through to the present time where we find a nation, united in purpose and determined in victory, and reaching far into the future. This is the tradition and heritage of America which must be kept alive, which must be passed on to generations yet unborn. That heritage of freedom and initiative is too precious a heritage to diminish or to die. And we, the Senior Class of Bayless High School, representatives of young America on whose shoulders the future course of our country lies, see a vision, based on that heritage, for the future. We see a determined faith in the future of our country--the future of a people steeped in the traditions of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, justice, and freedom for all men. In that future we see a nation, strong and mighty-a nation in which every individual has the right to develop socially, economically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually to the utmost limits of his abilities-a nation where every man, regardless of race, creed, or color is welcomed as equals in the universal brotherhood of man-a nation where every individual is free to worship or not to worship God as he so desires-a nation where the individual counts and where he is accorded the dignity, integrity, and worth to which every human being is entitled to. ,X t- r LT , fwa . 'i' ,, A ,Wt Q -I I ee ee a aglaaaa W